COLOR COMBINATIONS

I've always loved the color orange. I can recall how, at a very young age, possibly about 2 or 3, I had what amounted almost to a mystical experience with the color orange. I came across a bright orange traffic cone, and was just transfixed with indescribable bliss at the sight of its color. More recently, I began to wonder why certain colors, and combinations of colors, bore such intense emotional resonances. The question is as mysterious as the one asking why certain musical notes and combinations of tones can evoke such intense and different feelings. Is there some sort of mathematical relationship between the frequencies of colors or sounds that would explain their emotional effects? Like is red and pink expressable as 23894659.233 over 17359269.23423, while orange and black is 17 over 77?  What follows is a list of the feelings I get from various colors and combinations of colors.










1. ORANGE and BLACK--My favorite color combination. Intense, unusual, spooky, gothic, dangerous, vivid.













2. RED and BLACK--Evil, danger, warning, sexy, toxic-all in the best possible way.














3. ORANGE and PURPLE-- One almost never sees this excellent combination, which makes it all the more powerful. Happy, intense, unusual, friendly but weird, operating on some sort of high and obscure plane.












4. BLUE- The color of authority and god. Cops, security guards, religion, the state. I do not like this color.
But turquoise is good.









5. YELLOW- Sickly, diseased, jaundiced, bilious, vomitous.












6. RED and GREEN- These colors just DO NOT go together! Stop pretending that they do.
















7. PINK and LIGHT GREEN--Even worse! Make it stop! This is the worst possible combination!


















8. GREEN and PURPLE- A sort of magic, botanical combination. Tends to look good on plants but elsewhere not so much.

















9. RED and YELLOW - McDonalds. Ketchup and mustard. Bleh.


















10. PURPLE and YELLOW -- A powerful, regal combination. Arrogant and faintly tacky, but way, way better than the earth tones one sees everywhere.



















11. PINK and BLACK-- Sexy in a kind of barely-legal, 18 yr old way.





















12. PINK and BROWN-- Somehow warm and appealing. One of the only subtle combos I like. Like a cute, furry little critter and its pink nose.





















13. YELLOW and BLACK-- Power tools, safety gear, wasps and bees, danger, but not of a particularly exciting or interesting kind. Quite a contrast to red and black, which represents a sexy, toxic, villainous vixen sort of danger.




















14. RED and ORANGE -- Don't really go together.




















15. PINK and PURPLE -- Joyful and attractive in an almost sickening way. We need to see more of this combo.
















16. RED and BLUE -- Ugh. Hey, lets just put the two strongest colors next to each other. Um no.

















17. PURPLE and RED -- Wow this is bad. Now this is really the worst combo possible. Some dude told me he had a bad mushroom trip where everything was red and purple. I was like damn dude, that suuuuuuucks!














18. GREEN -- Looks lovely and magical in nature, and on girls with long black hair.

















19. PINK and BLUE-- What? That's just weird, in a kind of meaningless way. It's not really saying anything

















20. BLUE and ORANGE -- Likewise weird, without expressing too much. I could picture alien civilizations using this one a lot.


















21. GREEN and BLACK -- Nothing really happening here. Green Anarchists really need a better combo.














22. PINK and RED -- Harrrrrfffff!!!!!! Ok, now this is really the worst possible combo. Like pile of steaming, bloody viscera.














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